Lorenzo Lewis
(1803-1847)
BIRTH
November 13, 1803
PLACE
Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia
DEATH
July 27, 1847
PLACE
Clarke County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
Lawrence Lewis
(1767-1839)
MOTHER
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
(1779-1852)
SISTER
Betty Washington Lewis
(1733-1797)
SISTER
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
SISTER
Frances Parke Lewis Butler
(1799-1875)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lorenzo Lewis was a Virginia planter born in 1803, a son of Lawrence Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis. He married Esther Maria Coxe in 1827 and lived at Audley in Clarke County, where his mother later joined the household. His letters document plantation business and dealings involving enslaved people. A historic landscape study also records enslaved workers at his Fairfax County property in 1840. He died at Audley in 1847; his precise birthplace remains disputed.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Lorenzo Lewis’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Lorenzo Lewis is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Lorenzo Lewis died on Jul 27, 1847, in Clarke County, Virginia. Lorenzo Lewis was a Virginia planter born in 1803, a son of Lawrence Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis. He married Esther Maria Coxe in 1827 and lived at Audley in Clarke County, where his mother later joined the household. His letters document plantation business and dealings involving enslaved people. A historic landscape study also records enslaved workers at his Fairfax County property in 1840. He died at Audley in 1847; his precise birthplace remains disputed. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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